{"id":4364,"date":"2009-01-14T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2009-01-14T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T12:58:00","slug":"the-life-and-times-of-sarah-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-life-and-times-of-sarah-palin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life And Times Of Sarah Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Crace offers us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/jan\/13\/sarahpalin-usa\" title=\"Sarah Palin -- Digested by John Crace\">a digested read<\/a> of a Sarah Palin biography. An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At school, Sarah stood out as one of the brightest children. &#8220;I could tell she would go far,&#8221; remembers former geography teacher, George Bush. &#8220;She was the only one who could identify Iraqistan on a map.&#8221; Sarah&#8217;s potential was realised when she came seventh in the Wasilla Miss Congeniality competition in 1979.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Before the Indians among you laugh and mock the USA, do note that they rejected Palin, while we <a href=\"\/celebrating-pratibha-patil\/\" title=\"Celebrating Pratibha Patil\">elected Patil<\/a>. So there.<\/p>\n<p>(More on Palin: <a href=\"\/its-ok-not-to-know\/\" title=\"It's OK Not To Know\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"\/sarah-palin-brain-surgeon\/\" title=\"Sarah Palin, Brain Surgeon\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"\/truly-exotic-food\/\" title=\"Truly Exotic Food\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"\/sarah-palins-foreign-policy-credentials\/\" title=\"Sarah Palin's Foreign Policy Credentials\">4<\/a>, <a href=\"\/the-3-am-call\/\" title=\"The 3 AM Call\">5<\/a>, <a href=\"\/sarah-palin-poet-laureate\/\" title=\"Sarah Palin, Poet Laureate\">6<\/a>, <a href=\"\/the-do-it-yourself-ethic\/\" title=\"The Do-It-Yourself Ethic\">7<\/a>, <a href=\"\/sarah-palin-post-turtle\/\" title=\"Sarah Palin, Post-Turtle\">8<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Crace offers us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/jan\/13\/sarahpalin-usa\" title=\"Sarah Palin -- Digested by John Crace\">a digested read<\/a> of a Sarah Palin biography. An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At school, Sarah stood out as one of the brightest children. &#8220;I could tell she would go far,&#8221; remembers former geography teacher, George Bush. &#8220;She was the only one who could identify Iraqistan on a map.&#8221; Sarah&#8217;s potential was realised when she came seventh in the Wasilla Miss Congeniality competition in 1979.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Before the Indians among you laugh and mock the USA, do note that they rejected Palin, while we <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/celebrating-pratibha-patil\/\" title=\"Celebrating Pratibha Patil\">elected Patil<\/a>. So there.<\/p>\n<p>(More on Palin: <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/its-ok-not-to-know\/\" title=\"It's OK Not To Know\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/sarah-palin-brain-surgeon\/\" title=\"Sarah Palin, Brain Surgeon\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/truly-exotic-food\/\" title=\"Truly Exotic Food\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/sarah-palins-foreign-policy-credentials\/\" title=\"Sarah Palin's Foreign Policy Credentials\">4<\/a>, <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/the-3-am-call\/\" title=\"The 3 AM Call\">5<\/a>, <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/sarah-palin-poet-laureate\/\" title=\"Sarah Palin, Poet Laureate\">6<\/a>, <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/the-do-it-yourself-ethic\/\" title=\"The Do-It-Yourself Ethic\">7<\/a>, <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/sarah-palin-post-turtle\/\" title=\"Sarah Palin, Post-Turtle\">8<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Life And Times Of Sarah Palin - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-life-and-times-of-sarah-palin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Life And Times Of Sarah Palin - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"John Crace offers us a digested read of a Sarah Palin biography. 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